Mick Redman: background

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Monday, 13 June 2011

Using lorempixum as background images

I've been finding lately that lormepixum is also pretty darn useful in providing background images.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<title>lorempixum background</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/reset.css" />
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ultra' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style>
#content
{
margin:auto;
width:40em;
min-height:40em;
background:url(http://lorempixum.com/g/640/640/food) no-repeat;
padding:1em;
}
h1
{
font:4em/1.5em 'Ultra', arial, serif;
color:orange;
}
h2
{
font:2em/1.5em 'Ultra', arial, serif;
}
h3
{
font:1em/1.5em 'Ultra', arial, serif;
}
h2, h3
{
color:#4577D4;
}
#innerText
{
background:url(images/opaque.png);
width:37em;
font:1em/1.5em Sans-serif;
color:#222222;
padding:0.5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<section id="content">
<header><h1>Header 1</h1></header>
<section id="innerText">
<p><strong>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique</strong> senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. <em>Aenean ultricies mi vitae est.</em> Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, <code>commodo vitae</code>, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. <a href="#">Donec non enim</a> in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis.</p>
<h2>Header Level 2</h2>
<ol>
<li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li>
<li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus magna. Cras in mi at felis aliquet congue. Ut a est eget ligula molestie gravida. Curabitur massa. Donec eleifend, libero at sagittis mollis, tellus est malesuada tellus, at luctus turpis elit sit amet quam. Vivamus pretium ornare est.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Header Level 3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li>
<li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
</body>
</html>

Monday, 16 May 2011

Use of textures for 1920s feel.

This is an example page in the style of the 1920s, I'm sure some would say art-deco. The main thing for me is the use of textures, appropriate images, borders and backgrounds.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<title>Mobile friendly liquid layout #7</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/reset.css">
<title>Twenties</title>
<style>
@font-face {
font-family: 'RaconteurNFRegular';
src: url('fonts/raconteurnf-webfont.eot');
src: local('☺'), url('fonts/raconteurnf-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('fonts/raconteurnf-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('fonts/raconteurnf-webfont.svg#webfont6VTANDte') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

html, body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
height:100%;
margin: 0 auto;
background:#FFD073 url(images/seamlesspaper.jpg);
color:#000000;
}
#container
{
height:60%;
margin: 0 auto;
width:920px;
}
#contentWrapper, #contentHolder
{
position:relative;
behavior: url(scripts/PIE.htc);
}
#contentWrapper
{
width:500px;
float:left;
border:8px solid #A67B25;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
behavior: url(scripts/PIE.htc);
opacity:0.8;
filter:alpha(opacity=80);
}

#contentHolder
{
margin:4px;
border:2px solid #000000;
-webkit-border-radius:4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
}

#contentHolder p
{
margin:8px;
font-family:serif;
font-size:1.1em;
line-height:140%;
color:#000000;
text-align:justify;
}

h1
{
font-family: 'RaconteurNFRegular';
font-size:4em;
color:#000000;
}

img.city
{
float:left;
width:400px;
}

#footer
{
height:40%;
clear:both;
background:url(images/cityborder.png) repeat-x;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<h1>The Roaring Twenties</h1>
<div id="contentWrapper">
<div id="contentHolder">
<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
</div>
</div>
<img src="images/cityArtDeco.png" class="city" />
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Unexpected CSS3pie issue

I have shifted between using CSS3pie and not over the past year from http://css3pie.com. I really appreciate all the work that's gone into it. Sometimes it just doesn't work for me. This morning, I started to look at why it was not working on my portableCMS. I started to gradually remove elements and discovered that if I removed the colour from my body background ie from:
background:#FFFFFF url(images/bodyBackground.png) repeat-x;
to
background:url(images/bodyBackground.png) repeat-x;
I got partial site of my rounded corners etc.

Then I found this blog post. http://www.jakobloekkemadsen.com/2010/10/how-to-make-css3pie-work/
So I put, position:relative; in the CSS call to my selector which used PIE.htc and hey presto!

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Resize Background Image

I've often seen background images being resized on designer websites and wondered, how do they do that? Anyway, here's how.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Resize Background Image</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body
{
margin:0;
font-family:Sans-serif;
}
#background
{
position:absolute;
z-index:-1;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
#mainContent
{
margin:0 auto;
width:800px;
padding:10px;
background:#FFFFFF;
color:#A3A3A3;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<img id="background" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4947943522_5ba46ef4df.jpg" alt="windFarm" />
<br /><br />
<div id="mainContent">
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Monday, 16 August 2010

Big Text in the Background

Sometimes it is useful to design a web page with big text in the background of the main content. Below I have created a page which does that. The <h1> content is declared before the main page content and pushed to the back using position:absolute and z-index-1 in the CSS.

See demo.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Big Text in the Background</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
color:#999999;
}
h1
{
position:absolute;
left:60px;
top:-200px;
z-index:-1;
font-size:20em;
color:#F2D1F9;
}
#mainPage
{
margin:100px auto;
width:800px;
}
p
{
margin:20px;
text-align:justify;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The Big Text</h1>
<div id="mainPage">
<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>